4G wireless up and running in Canoe Lake area

A cluster of communities north of Meadow Lake are now living the 4G life. Canoe Lake Cree Nation and the Metis communities of Jans Bay and Cole Bay have partnered with Sasktel to get better cell and online service under its new community participation model. The...

Teen in Regina recovering from kidnapping, sexual assault

An attempt to buy a cellphone in Regina turned into four hours of horror for a 17-year-old girl. She had been communicating with a young man through social media and agreed to meet him in east Regina on Tuesday night to buy his cell phone. Instead, the man got into...
Banking on more aboriginal students

Banking on more aboriginal students

The Bank of Nova Scotia is hoping a giant cheque will make a big difference for aboriginal students entering university. Thursday morning, it presented a $150,000 cheque to the First Nations University (FNUniv) to establish the Scotiabank aboriginal entrance award....
Trial set for two accused of murdering Prince Albert teen

Trial set for two accused of murdering Prince Albert teen

The two men accused of killing a 17-year-old Prince Albert boy are set for trial by judge and jury. In April of 2014, Clayton James Bear was found with a gunshot wound in Prince Albert’s East Hill area. He was transported to hospital, where he was pronounced...

Advance votes more than double in northern Sask.

This year, Canadians already knew the federal election advance polling numbers were high – and now they know where all these ballots were cast. Elections Canada has released estimates for each riding. In the Desnethe-Missinippi-Churchill River riding, about...

Band office attack in B.C. leaves 1 dead, at least 10 injured

One man is dead and as many as 10 people are hurt, some with life-threatening injuries, after a man walked into the Bridge River Indian Band office in Lillooet, B.C., armed with a hammer. Michaela Swan with the Interior Health Authority says it’s caring for two...
Fond du Lac RCMP officer subject of internal investigation

Fond du Lac RCMP officer subject of internal investigation

Saskatchewan’s RCMP is moving ahead with an internal investigation of one of its own officers. The RCMP suspended Constable Aiden Pratchett the day after investigators seized his devices in the northern community of Fond du Lac in October of 2014, as part of a child...

Saskatchewan Sergeant at Arms appalled at public urinators

Saskatchewan’s Sergeant at Arms has lost his patience with public urinators using the legislative building as a place to relieve themselves. For three or four years now, party buses have been pulling up to the legislative building and letting passengers off who then...

Research follows the money trail

The CD Howe Institute says nearly two-thirds of the money generated by on-reserve economic activity in Ontario is being spent on band administration. Senior policy analyst, Benjamin Dachis, says whether that is too high is not for the institute to judge, but he says...